President Joko ‘Jokowi” Widodo said that complaints regarding the difficulty to formulate a spending report (SPJ) of Village Funds will be forwarded to Minister of Finance. “We will evaluate it. This is what I want to discuss with Minister of Finance,” the President told reporters after delivering a briefing at the 2018 Village Governance Capacity […]

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo expressed his gratitude to all village apparatus, as well as the officers of Indonesian National Defence Forces (TNI) and Indonesian National Police (Polri) who secured simultaneous regional elections (pilkada) last month. This was enunciated by the President at an event “Enhancing the Capacity of Village Administration and Village Community Institution of […]

Starting the second day of Thematic Forum of the Government Public Relations Coordination Agency (Bakohumas) organized by Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration (Kemendes PDTT), Secretary General of the Ministry Anwar Sanusi said that Village Facilitator is established to provide partners for the community in order to manifest the mandate of the law. “One of the approaches […]

Leaders of the Election Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) led by its Chairman Abhan on Tuesday (24/7) met with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo at Bogor Presidential Palace to report the results of the supervision during the 2018 Simultaneous Regional Election last month. “(The report includes) the results of supervision, progress of election-related dispute petitions to the Constitutional […]

Malaysian Minister of Foreign Affairs Saifuddin Abdullah on Monday (23/7) met with Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno L.P. Marsudi to discuss several issues, including finalizing border negotiations, protection for Indonesian citizens and migrant workers, and efforts to fight discrimination against palm oil products. It was the first official visit of the Malaysian Minister since […]

The Government has planned to allocate the Family Hope Program (PKH) budget of Rp31 trillion for the 2019 fiscal year. Previously, the budget for the 2018 fiscal year was Rp17 trillion for 10 million families of PKH recipients. “In 2019, according to the President’s directives, it has been proposed that the PKH budget will be […]

Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung asserted that digital age is inevitable, and children should be introduced to digital world. However, the Cabinet Secretary reminded all about the role of parents in protecting children from hoaxes.

As an effort to improve the quality as well as competitiveness of Indonesian human resources to deal with changes in the era of industrial revolution 4.0, the Government considers that it is important to enhance the capacity of Indonesian leaders. Based on this consideration, on 20 July 2018, President Joko Widodo has signed Presidential Decree […]

People should not worry too much about economic pressures recently, especially because external pressures are felt by all countries not only Indonesia, according to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. “(Those external pressure) are related to the trade war between the US and China, and also to the Fed interest rate hike in the US in which […]

Indonesia’s ethnicity and cultural diversity will become a force to develop Indonesia’s creative industries if managed properly, according to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. “We have great potentials because we know Indonesia has 714 ethnicities with different customs and traditions. It is of paramount importance,” the President said to reporters after attending the We The Fest […]